Hallandale Beach Work To Cost $50,000

August 28, 1985|By Joe Kollin, Staff Writer

HALLANDALE — An Oakland Park firm has been awarded a $50,000 contract to beautify and preserve the city`s 420-foot-wide beach.

City commissioners approved Commerce Construction Inc.`s bid last week to install beach vegetation, an irrigation system, two walkways, a rock garden and fencing at the beach at the foot of East Hallandale Beach Boulevard.

The work should begin by mid-September and be completed by mid-December, said Ed Lippman, the city`s parks and recreation director.

The state Department of Natural Resources will pay 75 percent, or $37,516, of the cost and the city will pay 25 percent, or $12,505.

Lippman said plans call for planting sea oats, native grasses and shrubs, erecting dune ``overwalks`` and fencing, and planting a rock garden. The purpose is not only to beautify the beach, he said, but to prevent beach erosion.